Publishers’ Forum Celebrates 20th Anniversary

Lviv hosted the XX International Publishers’ Forum from September 10th-15th. The event brought together 300 publishing houses as well as over 100 writers from Slovakia, Serbia, Croatia, Romania, Hungary, Germany, France, Norway, Canada, Sweden, Australia, and New Zealand. The stars of this year’s festival included English children writer Jeremy Strong, bestselling Russian author Tatyana Tolstaya, and famous Polish writer Janusz Leon Wisniewski.

Several literary competions were held over the course of the Publishers’ Forum, including the national “Best Book of the Forum” contest, the festival-wide “Young Republic of Poets” competition, the interregional “Library Innovations for Communities” fair, the German Goethe-Institut’s “Night of Non-Stop Music & Poetry” literary project, Meridian Czernowitz’s and Publishers’ Forum’s joint project “Poetic Train”, the International Translators’ festival’s “TRANSLIT” project, the “Context2” project, and many more.

This year’s Book Forum, held for the 20th time, is the first to have a country as a partner. This year it was Poland, but organizers promise more to come. Lviv Book Forum President Oleksandra Koval said during the opening ceremonies that next year’s partner would be Austria.